Toy pistol



M. BAGKES. Toy-Pistol.

No. 226,473; I I Patented A ril-13, Iss0.

Wallingford,in the county UNITED I STATES" 1 PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL BAcKEsfo'r WALLINGFORD, commenced.

TO-Y Pis'jro L.

srncrricarrron forming part of Letters Patent No. 22 ,473, dated April13, 1880,

Application filed February 2, 1880. v v

To all whom itmay concern:

.Be' it known that I, MICHAEL BACKES, of

of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have" invented a new I mprovemcntin Toy Pistols; andl-{do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection withthe accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a. full, clear, and exactzdescription of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-- V Figure 1,a side view; Fig. 2,a sectional side view;Fig. 3, a perspective. view of the feed:

. wheel; Fig. 4, the pereussion-pellets.

- This invention relates to an improvement in that class of toy pistolswhich are designed to'use disks having inelosed a pellet ofpercussion-powder, and with special reference to the use of the primersfor which Letters Patent were granted to meOctober 2S, 1879.

My peculiar primers consist of a succession of connected disks. ofpaper, a, inelosing the percussion-powder, and the connection of thedisks, such as a notch or notches formed in the edge between the disks,and as seen .in Fig.4.

-The invention 'whereby I adapt a pistol to the use; of my primersconsists inthe construction as hereinafter described, aml'particularlyrecited in the claim.

A represents the barrel; B, the frame and handle; 0, the hammer; l), thetrigger, and

E the mainspring,arranged in the usual manner for this class of pistols,and too well known to require further description in this specification.

' space 'on the F is the feed-wheel, on one or-hothedges of which areradial projecting lugs a, more or less in number, according to the sizeof. the wheel, distant from each other to correspond with the notches inthe edge of the primerstrip or between the primers, so as to leave aperiphery of the wheel between opposite lugs. f

H is a tubular passage beneath the barrel, opening forward, and throughwhich the first end of the primer-strip is introduced. This strip passesbeneath the wheel F, and so that the lugs a will engage thenotches-therein; then as the wheel rotates'it feeds the primerstrip'arounihbringmg the first upon the top surfaceof the wheel and beneaththe hammer 0,.as seen in Fig. 2, it being understood that the wheel F isarranged relatively to'the hammer, so that the hammer will strike uponone of the primers as it is presented.

Y Toimpart an intermittent movement to the wheel F, so as tosuccessively present the primers, a pawl, L, is pivoted to thehammerbelow its pivot '01, and so. that as the hammer. is turned back incocking-the pawl L will engage one of the lugs on the wheel F, and thenas the pawl advances, as shown in broken lines, Fig. 2, it will turn thewheel F one notch. and so on each time the hammer is cocked thefeed-wheel F will be turned one notch.

-To'protect the primers on their passage to the hammer a spring-tongue,a, is attached to the frame in rear of the wheel F, and extends up nearthe hammer, between the lugs aon the wheel F, as seen in Fig. 2.

In front of the hammer is a similar tongue, h,

on the surface of the wheel exposed between the ends of the tongues c h,which is the space where the primer to be exploded is exposed. The,tongue 0 prevents thelire being communicated from the primer explodedto the next one, and the tongue It also serves to turn out- .extendin grearward, and so as to leave a space ward or throw from, the ,pistol theremains of r the disk after it is discharged.

The wheel Fqna'y be arranged so a to retudinal plane.

I do not broadly claim-a toy pistol having volve in a transverse planeinstead of alongia feed-wheel provided with teeth to engage i the stripof detonating-pellets, as such, I am aware, is not'new.

I claim- The combination of the frame, hammer, and

trigger with the wheel F, constructed with radial lugs a, the pawl L,hinged to the hammer, and the tubular passage H, forward of and beneaththe wheel F in the frame, snbstantially as described.

MICHAEL BAUKES.

Witnesses:

Jo's. U. EARLE, x

G. W. BACKIES.

